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| Katherine Mansfield. If you wish to live, you must first attend your own funeral. p. 7 GAME: write your obituary | p.11 Benjamin Disraeli: I have seen more than i remember, and remember more than I have seen. WWW.chiasmus.com |
| It's kind of fun to do the impossible. Walt Disney p.13 | I told the doctor I was overtired, anxiety-ridden, compulsively active, constantly depressed, with recurring fits of paranoia. Turns out I'm normal. Jules Feiffer p27 |
| The best cure for insomnia is to get a lot of sleep. WC Fields. p27 | Instant gratification takes too long. Carrie Fisher. p,27 |
| There must be more to life than having everything. Maurice Sendak p.31 | I have never let my schooling interfere with my education. Mark Twain p.32 |
| Life begins on the other side of despair. Jean Paul Sartre p36 | The end of the human race will be that it will eventually die of civilization. Ralph Waldo Emerson p.43 |
| The ever-alert, the consciously wakeful- how many fine things they fail to see. Norman Douglas.p43 | When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other. Eric Hoffer p45 THIS ONE VERY IMPORTANT |
| A permanent state of transition is man's most noble condition. Juan Ramon Jimenez p45 | People wish to learn to swim and at the same time to keep one foot on the ground Marcel Proust p 47 |
| Man is condemned to be free. Jean Paul Sartre p.48 | The child is the father of the man. William Wordsworth p.85 |
| Play so that you may be serious. Anacharsis, quoted by Herodotus, 6thC BC p91 | To do two things at once is to do neither. Publilius Syrus, in Moral Sayings p98 |
| In Israel, in order to be a realist, you must believe in miracles. David Ben Gurion p109 | It takes twenty years to make an overnight success. Eddie Cantor |
| Stardom can be a gilded slavery. Helen Hayes p128 | Paul Gaugin: I shut my eyes in order to see p133 |
| First I dream my painting, then I paint my dream. Vincent VanGogh p133 | To study music we must learn the rules. To create music, we must forget them. Nadia Boulanger p136 |
| Always listen to experts. They'll tell you what can't be done and why. Then do it. Robert Heinlein p157 | For fast acting relief, try slowing down. Lily Tomlin p159 |
| Remember that not getting what you want is sometimes a wonderful stroke of luck. The Dalai Lama p162 | The best things in life aren't things. Ann Landers p164 (her take on the best things in life are free) |
| If you don't risk anything, you risk even more. Erica Jong. p164 | Unless we lose ourselves, there is no hope of finding ourselves. Henry Miller |
| Lake Wobegon: where all the women are strong, all the men are good looking, and all the children are above average. p168 | The chief object of education is not to learn things, but to unlearn things. GK Chesterton p.171 (JAF: use of spelling with spell checker) |
| Education is what remains when we have forgotten all that we have been taught. Sir George Saville p.171 (JAF: downloan the info out of your head) | Education consists mainly in what we have unlearned. Mark Twain p171 |
| Nonsense is the end result of all sense. George Bataille p174 | Unhappiness is not knowing what we want and killing ourselves to get it. Don Herald p177 |
| Vision is the art of seeing things invisible. Jonathan Swift p181 | Civilization is a limitless multipication of unnecessary necessaries. Mark Twain p181 |
| My children didn't have my advantages: I was born into abject povery. Kirk Douglas p197 | I don't see much of Alfred anymore since he got so interested in sex. Mrs. Kinsey p225 |
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